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Viewpoint: Never mind the employment — what about some work?
Many Western nations are moving towards a post‐industrial society; what form this will take it is too early to tell. Meanwhile, they face a paradoxical state of affairs. Witness…
Books
Ruth HoldsworthAlthough there are myriads of books on how children learn and can therefore be taught, those teaching in further and higher education, and indeed in training, are much more thinly…
Job enrichment and motivation
Lynda King‐TaylorThe second category of factors, called motivators, are those which have been found to produce greater efficiency on the job through growth, satisfaction and, in essence…
Action planning through force field analysis
Denys PageAn individual, group or organisation can often feel blocked (ie prevented from effective action) by apparently immovable forces which are obstructing the way forward towards a…
Improving supervisory performance without training
Lyndon JonesMany supervisors feel that they are stuck with an impossible job, with insufficient authority to handle things. Simultaneously, management does not believe supervision is…
Taylor‐made democracy for school government
Gerry FowlerThe latest extension to British democracy is that proposed in the Taylor Report on the Government of Schools. Most of the commentators seem to have missed a simple point: that a…
Topics
A conference Management of Schools is being held at the University of York on Saturday 25 February organised by the College of Preceptors, which pioneered courses in school…
Careers:: TRAINING
A 23‐year‐old, ex‐grammar schoolboy — five ‘O’ levels — who left school at 16 and worked as a bought ledger clerk has just got a job as a junior computer programmer; starting…
Unemployment — an international problem
Edgar BakerFuturologists are often wrong; they try to peer into the future by extrapolating from the present, but human affairs being what they are falsify their forecasts. Yet it seems…
Even State schools go independent with television
The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) tells its story of winter viewing in the classroom
For further education, the green paper is for no‐go
Keith HampsonWelcome though it is to have an attempt at fitting together the various bits of the educational jigsaw, with a try at least to establishing a coherent philosophy, the Green Paper…
Action learning and the nature of knowledge
Reginald RevansIt was in 1952 that the first experiments were made in this country with an ancient idea. The Apostle James, in his Epistle (chap 1 v 22), says:
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